blow hot and cold

blow hot and cold
Synonyms and related words:
alternate, around the bush, back and fill, beat about, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, change, chop and change, choplogic, dither, dodge, ebb and flow, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fence, flounder, fluctuate, go through phases, hedge, mystify, nitpick, obscure, oscillate, palter, parry, pendulate, pick nits, prevaricate, pussyfoot, quibble, ring the changes, seesaw, shift, shilly-shally, shuffle, shy, sidestep, split hairs, stagger, sway, swing, teeter, teeter-totter, tergiversate, totter, turn, vacillate, vary, waver, wax and wane, wobble

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  • blow hot and cold — {v. phr.} To change your ways or likes often; be fickle or changeable. * /Tom blows hot and cold about coming out for the baseball team; he cannot decide./ * /Mary blew hot and cold about going to college; every day she changed her mind./ * /The… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • blow hot and cold — {v. phr.} To change your ways or likes often; be fickle or changeable. * /Tom blows hot and cold about coming out for the baseball team; he cannot decide./ * /Mary blew hot and cold about going to college; every day she changed her mind./ * /The… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • blow hot and cold — If you blow hot and cold on an idea, your attitude and opinion keeps changing; one minute you are for it, the next you are against …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • blow hot and cold — ► blow hot and cold vacillate. Main Entry: ↑blow …   English terms dictionary

  • blow hot and cold — VACILLATE, dither, shilly shally, waver, be indecisive, change one s mind, be undecided, be uncertain, be unsure; Brit. haver, hum and haw; Scottish swither. → hot * * * phrasal : to be favorable at one moment and adverse the next : react or… …   Useful english dictionary

  • blow hot and cold —    If you blow hot and cold on an idea, your attitude and opinion keeps changing; one minute you are for it, the next you are against.   (Dorking School Dictionary)    ***    If you blow hot and cold about something, you constantly change your… …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • Blow hot and cold —   If you blow hot and cold on an idea, your attitude and opinion keeps changing; one minute you are for it, the next you are against …   Dictionary of English idioms

  • blow hot and cold (about something) — blow hot and ˈcold (about sth) idiom (informal) to change your opinion about sth often Main entry: ↑blowidiom …   Useful english dictionary

  • blow\ hot\ and\ cold — v. phr. To change your ways or likes often; be fickle or changeable. Tom blows hot and cold about coming out for the baseball team; he cannot decide. Mary blew hot and cold about going to college; every day she changed her mind. The boys will get …   Словарь американских идиом

  • blow hot and cold — verb To behave inconsistently; to vacillate or to waver, as between extremes of opinion or emotion. He blows hot and cold. He will speak for or against. Syn …   Wiktionary

  • blow hot and cold — to be enthusiastic one moment and not interested the next. It s impossible to have a healthy relationship with someone who blows hot and cold all the time …   New idioms dictionary

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